Heresies

Heresy Means To Choose. The Person Who Chooses 'wrongly' Is A Heretic; Yet Heretics, Since The Beginning Of Time, Have Existed In All Societies. The Result Has Been An Endless Conflict Between Holders Of Power, Whose Business It Is To Rule, And The Individual, Whose Business It Is To Free Himself From Arbitrary Authority. It Is This Personal Human Conflict -- Between Power And Knowledge, Authority And Reason, The Collective And The Individual -- Which Noted Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz Explores In Heresies. In The Same Biting But Often Humorous Vein As In The Second Sin, Dr. Szask Illuminates The Contractions And Fallacies That Make Up Our Contemporary Attitudes Toward Sex And Marriage, Freedom And Punishment, Law And Morals, Medicine And Psychiatry. These Aphorism Expose Many Of Our Modern Beliefs And Practices To Be As Self-serving And Inhuman As Those Of The Medieval Christians, Who, Out Of Fear Of The Devil, Burned Witches At The Stake -- Back Cover. Preface -- Introduction -- Family -- Marriage -- Love -- Sex -- Men And Women -- Ethics -- Language -- Classification -- Freedom And Slavery -- Law -- Punishment -- Control And Self-control -- Personal Conduct -- Social Relations -- Politics -- Religion -- Medicine -- Medicine And Psychiatry -- Drugs -- Suicide -- Psychiatry -- Institutional Psychiatry -- Psychoanalysis -- Mental Illness -- Myth Of Mental Illness -- Sxhizophrenia -- Psychotherapy -- Science And Scientism -- Therapeutic State -- Epilogue. Thomas Szasz. Includes Bibliographical References. Acknowledgments......Page 9 Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 13 references......Page 24 Family......Page 25 Marriage......Page 27 Love......Page 31 Sex......Page 33 Men and Women......Page 37 Ethics......Page 41 Language......Page 47 Classification......Page 56 Freedom and Slavery......Page 58 Law......Page 61 Punishment......Page 64 Control and Self-Control......Page 66 Personal Conduct......Page 69 Social Relations......Page 76 Politics......Page 82 Religion......Page 89 Medicine......Page 91 Medicine and Psychiatry......Page 102 Drugs......Page 106 Suicide......Page 115 Psychiatry......Page 117 Institutional Psychiatry......Page 134 Psychoanalysis......Page 139 Mental Illness......Page 147 Myth of Mental Illness......Page 156 Schizophrenia......Page 162 Psychotherapy......Page 167 Science and Scientism......Page 174 Therapeutic State......Page 178 Epilogue......Page 183 Aphorisms about marriage, love, sex, ethics, freedom, punishment, religion, psychiatry, mental illness, and other topics illuminate contradictions characterizing contemporary attitudes and the consequences of literalizing metaphors. Bibliogs